@RaminNasibov 1672, 3rd Anglo-Dutch war. The English insured the fleet on the Amsterdam insurance market.
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Darren Sugg (darrensugg.bsky.social) 🇺🇦
@DarrenSugg1
Bureaucrat, researcher.
Clapham, London Katılım Mayıs 2012
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@ref513 I sort of enjoyed it at the time but knew it was a load of nonsense only financed because of the success of Gladiator. The bit where someone has the "trojan horse" idea -he literally sees someone whittling a wooden toy horse and almost goes "ah ha!" - is hilariously bad.
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nobody on EARTH cared one iota about the movie Troy for two decades until last week when it conveniently became an immortal classic
Joseph Kahn@JosephKahn
I watched TROY again and I think the problem is Brad Pitt is the definitive Achilles. Anything below his feral physical perfection comes off like weak ass cosplay. Every man is Elliot Page compared to this guy.
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@v_j_freeman I bet he doesn't refer to the 10th month of the year as December..
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Really bored of pedants who try to make themselves look like they hold precious cultural capital by refusing to accept language evolves
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@northumbriana Yep! Metro Line, 1863/ Last hanging outside Newgate, 1868. Similarly, someone would have read about the last execution in France with a guillotine (1977) on ceefax (started 1973).
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The London Underground is so old that its first passengers could take the tube to go and watch public hangings.
Ramin Nasibov@RaminNasibov
What historical fact sounds fake but is true?
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Darren Sugg (darrensugg.bsky.social) 🇺🇦 retweetledi
🧠 Quiz of the Day - May 15
"Check out the big brain on Brett!"
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@Damo8375 @sid_lambert I agree. R Villa's goal was great, but he did appear to keep going past the same defenders..
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It’s 45 years since the ball dropped to Steve MacKenzie at Wembley.
What a hit, son. Absolutely smeared that one in.
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I could have gone to this match. I had the choice of this or a WC qualifier against Romania. I chose the latter. It ended 0-0.
(I was only 10..)
When Football Was Better@FootballInT80s
12/05/1981: England 0 Brazil 1 The brilliant Zico scores the game’s only goal at Wembley.
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@gilescoren @PhilipHensher @HeinzUK @GreggsOfficial @JamesCleverly "...you've a toaster of some kind"..
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@PhilipHensher @HeinzUK @GreggsOfficial @JamesCleverly I love that scene so much. Every restaurant I review I walk in wanting to be that…
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This, by the way, is the open bottle of @HeinzUK tomato ketchup that the (perfectly nice and polite) server at @GreggsOfficial would not let me have a tiny squirt of on my sausage roll because “it’s only allowed on breakfasts” (which I don’t think they even sell).
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Never got round to seeing it a decade ago, but finally caught up with La La Land earlier on iplayer. V good IMHO..
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🧠 Quiz of the Day - May 11
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@v_j_freeman @hellothisisivan I bet RW could be an infuriating "prankster" on set.
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@hellothisisivan 100% with Sally Field & all the comments roasting her are wrong. It’s a pretty excruciating film & while Williams could certainly be a very funny man I bet he was also hard work at times. While Brosnan is not just a pretty face. He’s charm personified.
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Robin Williams has always struck me as someone it would have been an absolute nightmare to be around
Variety@Variety
Sally Field says she thought Robin Williams "wasn't funny" while filming "Mrs. Doubtfire": “Robin was always trying something different to make me laugh. It was so unfunny. I can't begin to tell you. And then Pierce, wonderful Pierce Brosnan, we were sitting at a table at the restaurant, and he made a fart noise on his arm. And I was gone. That was it.” variety.com/2026/film/news…
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@thebeercolonel Great film. A sort of 90s American re-make of The Day of the Jackal.
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Watching In The Line of Fire, which is a fantastic picture in a properly 90s 'made by Castle Rock' sort of a way.
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By the Thames near Chertsey Bridge....
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@pipterino If not previously seen.... theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…
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Why did I always think this was Tom Waits when it looks nothing like him
Bill Pourquoimec@BillPourquoimec
Rose (L) and Lily (R) at Cafe Lehmitz in Hamburg, Germany, 1968. Photo by Anders Petersen
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@jamiesont Really into Johnny Mathis at the moment...
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Gerald MUST be on the tribute tonight
Rainy@rainy101
Of course his full name is David Bloody Attenborough as anyone of a certain age knows.
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@portraitinflesh You are too young to remember "One Man and his dog"...I think it was on Sunday evenings. Televised sheepdog trials. Marvellous. Presented by one Phil Drabble.
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Just look at the sheer *skill* on display, here. It may well be more economically rational to replace this with drones, but I can't help feeling we'd be losing something *major*. A thoroughly irrational feeling, probably, but who'd want to make human civilization purely rational?
Massimo@Rainmaker1973
Border Collies showing exactly why they’re famous for their speed, focus, and heart. [📹 seanthesheepman7]
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@verypopularname Looks like Marge's husband, Norm, in 'Fargo'.
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Terry Hennessey was 27 here.
Football Nostalgia@MemorabiliaMal
Goal magazine September/October 1969
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